Samira Luka serves as Senior Director for Dialogue in CEOSS (Coptic Evangelical Organization for Social Services), a non-governmental organization dedicated to social and cultural development, social justice and inter-religious dialogue in Egypt.  Samira works at the international level, as well as...

Archbishop Felix Anthony Machado was born on June 6, 1948 in Remedy in Vasai Diocese. He was ordained a priest in October of 1976 in the Archdiocese of Bombay. In May 1998 he was incardinated in the Diocese of Vasai. He was appointed as the Archbishop of Nashik in January 2008 and was ordained in Ma...

Dr. Muhammad Machasin is a professor of history of Islamic cultures at the Sunan Kalijaga State Islamic University (UIN) Yogyakarta, Indonesia. He has been actively promoting interfaith dialogue and is a member of the board of the Asian Council on Religion and Peace. He used to be one of the Heads (...

Shaikh Arshad Madani is the son of Maulana Syed Hussain Ahmad Madani, who was the former President, Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind and Prisoner of Malta. He was also Head of Teachers and Professor of Hadees in Darul Uloom, Deoband, Uttar Pradesh, India. Since 2006, Shaikh Arshad Madani has been President of Ja...

Katherine Marshall is one of the founders and currently the executive director of the World Faiths Development Dialogue. She is a senior fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, where she manages work on religion and global development, as well as holding a professor posi...

Rev. Kyoichi Sugino serves as the Deputy Secretary General of Religions for Peace (RfP). He coordinates RfP’s affiliated interreligious councils, women and youth networks in more than 90 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East. Rev. Sugino has been directly engaged in ...

Rev. Dr. Andrea Zaki Stephanous, born 1960, is General Director of the Coptic Evangelical Organization for Social Services and President of the Protestant churches of Egypt. After receiving his Bachelor of Theology from Cairo Evangelical Seminary, Cairo, Egypt in 1983, he went to Coady International...

The Most Reverend James Massa is an Auxiliary Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn. A graduate of Boston College and Yale University’s School of Divinity, the Most Reverend Massa pursued his doctorate in systematic theology at Fordham University in New York, where he wrote his disserta...

Dr Gunnar Stålsett was born in Nordkapp, Norway in 1935. He has a long career as a promoter of peace and reconciliation. Presently he is engaged inter alia in Myanmar. He studied theology in Norway, USA and Germany. He has held several national and international posts, such as General Secretary of ...

Rev. Dr. John Pawlikowski has studied the Nazi Holocaust extensively. His scholarly interests include the theological and ethical aspects of the Christian-Jewish relationship and public ethics. A leading figure in the Christian-Jewish dialogue, he is the former president of the International Council...